REVIEWS
What folks are saying about Benjamin Grabbed His Glicken and Ran:
"... This book by Fred Jay Gordon is a collection of mysteries that fold into each other, that flash back and forth like cards in the hand, that dare you, hypocrite reader, to find the final culprit in his ultimate disguise. ... Fred Jay Gordon is a good dragon fighter. His languaage is witty and gallant. He tilts cliche and he rides out against cant. He skirts the dangers of self-seriousness with a lot of style. His language is his best weapon and his best defense. ... There's no way to sum it up in a package. Long live this book!"
"... For this is really a novel of ideas, whose every effect is calculated, about the failure of intelligence to save us from ourselves. One hopes Benjamin grabbed his Glicken and ran won't be dismissed as just another offbeat experimental .. novel. It is an exciting book!"
"...Benjamin's personal story is wild, with an extraordinary made-up language and a pun-on-pun series of sentences... The novel builds to a strong, dramatic climax and the effect is chilling."
"Benjamin as a character is oddly captivating ... virtuosic ... exacting descriptions of Benjamin's room, physical sensations, and emotions are like a zoom lens bringing one in intensely close to him. Benjamin says of his Mysteries: 'Words are only a small portion of my life... They are weak technicalities which fail... Words are only words. And besides, I lie a lot.'
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